Dear freesurfer users
Do you have an idea how to create an average ?h.volume file?
Our goal is to create a file with average volumes for our subjects, to follow the group analysis. We know that the idea of using a volume measure isn't implemented in the freesurfer software. We runned the make_average_subject command in hope to find something like an ?h.volume file in the average folder as there are files for the other measures like thickness, area, curvature. Before we runned the make_average command we followed the advice of Bruce Fischl to create .mgh files in matlab with the following command:
[thickness, f] = read_curv('lh.thickness') ; [area, f] = read_curv('lh.area') ; volume = thickness .* area; save_mgh(volume, 'lh.volume.mgz', eye(4));
This functioned very well and we got our lh.volume.mgz files in the surf folder. Problems appeared later on, because we didn't find a difference in the average folder compared to using the command without lh.volume.mgz files in the surf folder. We're now not sure if we should continue like normal, or what exactly to do. Has somebody an idea.
Best regards
Rafael Huber